Hello!

I've just bought a Phillips TV (the 55PUS7502, to be specific) and updated Android to 7.0. Perhaps it's a silly question, but shouldn't the TV display "HDR Signal" when playing a 4K HDR video from the uilt-in Youtube-app?

The videos sure doesn't look like they are supporting HDR.

I bought a hauppauge winTv-dualHD tuner and was trying to set it up with live channels on my Nvidia Shield TV but when i go to sources it just doesn't show up. I'm in Europe and i wanted to use DVB-C. Got it working with Plex DVR but i prefer using the live channels app, can anyone here help me out?

Just spoke to the product manager and he confirms delivery of initial production as of TODAY. Should be shipping to pre-order customers within 48 hours.

Current pricing, for April delivery, is $149

Dual tuner works great using p-in-p and Android Nougat is stable.

So for example, the household has 2 television sets and one Xiaomi Mi Box hooked up to one of the TVs. Both TVs are not "smart", so in order to watch things on the second TV, it needs to be hooked up to another smart device. Mi Box was chosen cause the first TV has a 5.1 system, and Mi Box has an optical audio out. So I'm considering Chromecast for a second TV since it only has HDMI and built-in speakers.

But except for Mi Box, there's no androids in the household lying around, only an iPad device, so the Chromecast is basically limited by the iPad software selection with the Chromecast support, right? I've got a feeling that's not much, especially since some apps aren't on iOS at all.

That's why I was wondering, are the usual Chromecasting features of Android are still somewhere in the Android TV? Or if not, is there a way to activate them? Or are there any third-party solutions?

I have a hard time googling this cause all the results are obviously about the reverse - casting TO an Android TV. And I don't have access to the Mi Box and a Chromecast to test things out.

Whose idea was it to implement a PiP mode with the crippling limitation that you cannot have video playing in both the active app and the PiP window?

I spent about 20 minutes futzing around with VLC on my shield, and was able to get our baby monitor in a PiP window - but the moment you start any media application it abruptly closes the window

Who is this feature for? The 1% of folks who play emulators or games on their Android TV and want a show/movie playing in the corner?

Such a wasted opportunity.

The Nexus Player runs with 1GB, and 2GB increase seems helpful yet not even phones can run optimally with that much RAM (ex. Nexus 5X).

I understand that these boxes are supposed to be cheap, but why throw a terrible amount of ram on it. (You could just say get the Sheild TV, but I personally believe that for me would be overkill)

(Perhaps it has something to do with the GPU, or just the fact the Nexus Player uses that horrendous intel atom processor. Or I just have an experience of only getting devices with bad processors)

I just want to find a Nexus Player alternative that isn't the Sheild TV or horrendously slow.

Hi,

I have T95Z 2g/16gb android box with Logitech C920 webcam attached to it. Until two weeks ago everything worked fine. Video calling over skype was perfect and last Saturday mic stopped working. They still could see me but no sound

At first I checked if it is just a skype problem, but it isn't. It doesn't work in any app: voice search, voice recording etc.. So I checked maybe it is hardware issue with the webcam, but mic works fine on my desktop.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Just got my new Nvidia shield pro off of amazon, but when I plug it into the all nothing is happening, it won't turn on. Is thing defective from the factory or am I just as idiot?

I have a sinotec stl-43e390m smart tv which is running on Android 4.4.2

The TV card is a rtd298x and the TV version is rtd298x_tv001

While looking for a software update I flashed a rom I found online. However since then the TV color is distorted.

I would like to find the stock rom in order to flash it back to the factory settings.

Does anyone know where I can download the official rom

edit So I have finally managed to contact sinotec who put me in touch with a technician.

The technician insists that flashing a rom onto a TV is impossible and that in order to revert to stock firmware the TV needs to be sent to Midrand and the CPU needs to be changed.

This makes no sense to me at all as there is nothing wrong with my CPU. The fact that I flashed the other ROM onto the TV in the first place proves to me that it is possible.

Am I misunderstanding something here or is their technical support just utterly useless?

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I have an android tv (Sony) but I dislike the browser it has for internet (opera) is there any way to have chrome? Also I wish to use some apps I have such as the epub reader, but I can't find then on the store on the tv... can soemone plz help me?

I just rented the movie 'It' on Google Movies. I at first tried to play it on my Shield TV via the Google Movies app and it played in 4K but no HDR. Then I tried the Youtube app on my Shield and it played in 1080p only. I then tried the Youtube app on my TV and hurrah, the HDR logo popped up on the top right of my screen. The excitement wore off however as I quickly noticed it was stuck on 480p! I could not select anything above 480p...

I then as a last resort tried to use the built in Chromecast of the Shield. Again, 4k but no HDR.

I am quite annoyed by this now, knowing the movie is in HDR but all my playback options do not give me the best quality. I know my Shield TV is properly set up for HDR because it runs HDR and streamed Blu-Rays via Plex with HDR (the HDR logo pops up).

Any ideas on how to either get the Shield giving me the joys of HDR, or stop the Youtube app on my TV from being silly and serve me 4K HDR instead of damn 480p HDR?

My TV is a LG OLED55E7N.

Thanks...

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So lot of people complaining about DirecTV Now stream resolution being sub par and I was wondering if there was a way to check what resolution you're getting. It's possible on FireTV from what I know so was wondering if anyone knew how to check.

Sideloaded APK is working fine but I do notice the stream isn't as good. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all,

I have an app (NJPW World sideloaded from a Fire TV) that makes me log in everytime I open it, and it's infuriating. Are there any LastPass style password autofill things I could use to avoid this?

Not sure how to explain this. I have a Chinese and an MI box. Is the MI android made by Google while the Chinese android just a cheap software? How is it legal to copy the software like that? Are they both the same android? Why is the Chinese version not built for TV and always so sluggish?

So I got one of those cheap Chinese boxes. Installed Kodi. Was working OK but Saturday night everything was stuttering (Netflix, my streaming channel, Plex). Switched to my regular smart TV and everything was good. Is this most likely because of the box?

Seriously, can't open many links across apps and it just doesn't feel as good as a few weeks ago.